ocd is the 5th studio album by Tamar Berk 

Fell in Lust

Avery Raquel’s new single “The Letter” is a heartfelt ballad that captures the delicate moment when friendship begins to blur into love. Told from her perspective after receiving a handwritten letter by her close friend, the song explores the vulnerability of confessing hidden feelings, the fear of change, and the hope of something deeper. With Avery’s signature soul-infused delivery, “The Letter” blends emotional storytelling with tender melodies, pulling listeners into a timeless narrative of love, longing, and honesty.

Musically, the track is stripped back and intimate, allowing Avery’s warm, emotive vocals to take centre stage. Gentle piano lines and subtle string-like elements give the song a classic ballad feel, while her modern Alternative Soul style keeps it fresh and relatable. It’s the kind of song that resonates across generations, evoking the quiet intensity of young love but with the depth and maturity of Avery’s songwriting.


The Letter

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Cold Hearts is a protest song against the state of the world, caused by the cold-hearted leaders who are fueled by a lust for power and deprived from empathy. More political than any of my previous songs, but I needed to speak up through my art. I hope it makes you feel something. And I hope it can be part of a manifestation for a better world.

Cold Hearts

As a song indirectly about nation-building but directly about the eye-brow raising freedoms that linger in the aftermath of building western democratic countries like Canada, centuries later its citizens patterned a new way forward for Canada: creating an ever changing definition of itself, year after year. But is the sustainable nature of a democratic nation conducive enough to construct one shared identity today, all this time later? Should citizens have 'stock' in domestic and international matters to an extent? Can the terms and conditions of our national history of blood, sacrifice, negotiation and compromise, lies and untruths, and follow-throughs of success and admiration be rewritten?

THP questions the assumptions left suspended in time. As a nation and as an entity which has continued along the path of walking a fine line between generosity and greed, war and peace, Canada takes center stage in this number. The lyrics twist and turn in typical THP fashion while incorporating and highlighting symbolisms and old world primeval notions of growth within a context akin to the development of democracies. Long Way Down uniquely conveys the significance of our national colours (red and white), the effects of togetherness and solitude, and giving voice to those who have served, built, fought for and defended our nation.

The song blends ethereal guitars, restrained percussion, and weary vocals into a slow descent — equal parts surreal and grounded, peaceful and unsettling.

LYRICS:

Soaring
Sailing
Nodded peaceful state
The red
Bleeding
And white still met

Hide cloth, Slab rock
Cold blood, Freedom
Scorched earth, Relent
Bygone, Attention

Sweet broadened conduit
It's a long way down
Feel it out but don't croak
Are you not around?
Quite vain might be fame again
Tall stage trip clown
Neat talk and onto it
It's a long way down

Soldiers 
Sharing
One final picnic

Hard shell, Your tool
Fresh paint, Remade
Parched globe, Spinning
New age, Disengage

Sweet broadened conduit
It's a long way down
Feel it out but don't croak
Are you not around?
Quite vain might be fame again
Tall stage, trip clown
Neat talk and onto it
It's a long way down.

Long Way Down

English lyrics : NIKITA IN LOVE
Ohhh, for you, Suni, my heart is broken. I've been a bastard for love. I walk through the valley of death; I've suffered for loving you. I traded bullets for hugs, and I traded weapons for your kisses, for what they call affection. I felt like a child; I'd never felt anything like this until I met you. Tell me if this is real, tell me if I can cry until the end of my life, tell me if this is real, tell me if I can cry until the end of my life

NIKITA IN LOVE

Already Taken is about trying to process living without somebody after they’ve chosen to leave you, and the everyday reminders they leave behind. Written with friends Sam Perry and Tom Hammond, and released via Mahogany Songs. 

Already Taken

hello this is the first scott is okay album to come out!!! it's called Turning up the Draw Distance and it's about my inability to see anything past my own stupid life :) 

thanks to me for producing it and me for writing it, and me for playing all the instruments, and me for attempting to mix and master it, and HURU and blenum for lending their voices, and brad for a clip of you talking in my room like 8 years ago, and ben for a second of you talking on a voicemail like 3 years ago, and james and sean my managers who have unwavering patience as i literally had this sitting at 99% finished for two years and didn't do nothing with it, and absolute for distributing it (shoutout lucia), and props, bonzai florists, conor, tragic sasha and a few others (sorry i forgot rn) for listening ahead of the release and giving me encouragement.... i think that's it.

i like soundcloud because it's basically free so people can listen freely BUT the gapless transitions between songs don't work because in 10 years of uploading to their site, they still don't support gapless albums and i always make my albums gapless because of the energy never dies by black eyed peas, (shout out the energy never dies by the black eyed peas) and they never sound as clean so if you have the opportunity to listen somewhere else (like apple music, youtube [when i upload the full album sometime this week], tidal, etc.), this is me suggesting you do that instead for the full listening experience

follow me on things if you want to stay updated when i release stuff i don't really post unless i'm releasing something (that can be a good thing or bad thing depending on your preferences), but i do share memes and (rarely share) musings on my IG stories sometimes. honestly, i fuck w/ letterboxd out of all social medias the most right now so that's probably the place to keep up with what i'm up to


The Reset Button

We are incredibly honoured to release a new song today. Be Still. A tribute to finding peace and healing in stillness. It has taken us a while to bring this song out into the world. A very vulnerable and tender time for both of us. This song captures the essence of healing after our motorbike accident January 2024. The delicate dance between stillness, surrender, compassion towards oneself, frustration, power, change and relief. A gentle softness, yet at the same time raw and powerful.

Lyrics:
Bound to bed
Like knotted threads
Too thick to untie
To still the mind
Through this tender time
This hill feels hard to climb
The wisdom will stay after
This transformation chapter
The wounds will fade

What’s happening right now
This healing
I feel it
Changing

Too big to swim
This sea we're in
Immersed in the tide
Storm in the night
No cloud in sight
With patience we reside
Solace within the silence
Hands of loving guidance
The wounds will fade

What’s happening right now
This healing
I feel it
Changing

Not working by just pushing through
Coz this time the bodys not ready to
Move on 
Just be still



Produced and mixed by Ru Lemer
Recorded by Brett Hamlyn, Deva Studios & Matt Harrington
Mastered by Jason Mitchel, Loud Mastering
Artwork by Ross Silcocks

Be Still

Quand Baudelaire sortait de son spleen, il lui arrivait parfois de s'envoler au dessus des contingences de ce monde aux limites si étroites (cœur ,esprit, beauté) 

Auteur poème ( élévation ) de BAUDELAIRE 
compositeur/interprète PIERRE JURAMY 

 

Elévation de BAUDELAIRE

Mulit-insturmentalist songwriter, bedroom based, influenced by Randy Newman, Nick Drake, The Blue Nile, Brian Wilson, Steely Dan,some electronic influences, sparkly guitars, synth pads and dreamy textures:

https://open.spotify.com/artist/5K7N2o1Ova6whNRU1dJLff

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